December 18, 2020 20:33 PM
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[China News Service Berlin]The number of newly diagnosed new crown virus infections announced by the German disease control department on the 17th exceeded 30,000 for the first time, setting a new high since the outbreak. The cumulative number of confirmed cases in Germany has exceeded 1.43 million. German Health Minister Span said on the same day that if the European Medicines Agency can complete the emergency use of the new crown vaccine before Christmas, Germany is expected to start vaccination on December 27 this year.
The German disease control department announced that the number of new confirmed cases was 30,400. According to real-time data from Germany’s “Times Online”, as of 20:40 on the 17th local time, Germany had a total of 1,430,141 confirmed cases, 1,047,265 cured, and 24,961 deaths.
On the same day, Span, together with German Chancellor Merkel and Minister of Education and Research Kalicek, met with Sahin and Tulegy, the two founders of the German BioNTech company. The messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) new crown vaccine jointly developed by BioNTech and Pfizer in the United States has been used for vaccination in the United Kingdom and the United States, and is currently waiting for the European Medicines Agency to approve its emergency use within the European Union.
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